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Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak
| Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
| Disciplina |
808.06
808.06650938 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AsperMarkus |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Greek
Medicine, Greek and Roman Science - Greece - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Greek Literature
History of Science Rhetoric |
| ISBN | 3-11-029512-1 |
| Classificazione | FB 4121 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context -- Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China -- Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia -- Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen -- Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures -- Galen on Poetic Testimony -- The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries -- Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences -- Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens -- Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics -- Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC -- On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse -- Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics -- Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing -- In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787652803321 |
| Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak
| Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
| Disciplina |
808.06
808.06650938 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AsperMarkus |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Greek
Medicine, Greek and Roman Science - Greece - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Greek Literature
History of Science Rhetoric |
| ISBN | 3-11-029512-1 |
| Classificazione | FB 4121 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context -- Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China -- Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia -- Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen -- Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures -- Galen on Poetic Testimony -- The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries -- Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences -- Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens -- Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics -- Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC -- On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse -- Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics -- Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing -- In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816170203321 |
| Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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